Russian Ambassador to South Ossetia Marat Kulakhmetov presented the veterans – home front workers with the jubilee medal "80 Years of Victory in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War ", the press service of the diplomatic department reports.
A delegation of the Parliament of South Ossetia laid flowers at the Memorial to those perished in the 1992-1993 Patriotic War of the People of Abkhazia in the Park of Glory in Sukhum, the press service of the legislative body reports.
Representatives of the Parliament are in Abkhazia for international monitoring of the early presidential elections.
A delegation of the South Ossetian Parliament has visited several polling stations in Abkhazia, where early presidential elections are taking place, the press service of the legislative body reports.
South Ossetian parliamentarians are present at the presidential elections in Abkhazia as international observers.
A memorial event dedicated to the 36th anniversary of the withdrawal of the Soviet troops from Afghanistan was held at the monument to the internationalist soldiers in Tskhinval on Saturday.
The event was attended by the leadership of the Republic, headed by President Alan Gagloev, Russian Ambassador to South Ossetia Marat Kulakhmetov, veterans of the war in Afghanistan, representatives of the Russian 4th military base, commander of the Sarmat battalion Vladimir Naniev and fighters of the Alania battalion, students of the educational institutions, and the public.
Since the previous meeting within the framework of the Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRM), the situation on the border of South Ossetia with Georgia has remained quite calm, the head of the South Ossetian delegation Yegor Kochiev told journalists following the meeting in the IPRM format.
The first meeting of the parties this year took place in the village of Ergnet - on the border of South Ossetia with Georgia.